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Speaker 1: Mahomes back throws. It is equal.

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Speaker 2: with the left side. He's going, baby, He's going to

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Speaker 3: The way back.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the twenty in the Huddle Podcast presented by Microsoft.

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Speaker 2: I'm Tim Twentyman.

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Speaker 1: This is PJ. Clark and PJA.

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Speaker 2: For three and a half quarters, the Detroit Lions did

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Speaker 2: not play their best football Sunday. But look what good

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Speaker 2: teams do is good teams find ways to win games late,

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Speaker 2: and they find ways to make.

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Speaker 1: Up for their own mistakes.

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Speaker 2: And that is what the Detroit Lions did with their

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Speaker 2: thirty one to twenty six win over Chicago Bears. Income

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Speaker 2: from behind fashion, I would I would love to see

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Speaker 2: what the probably win probability.

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Speaker 3: Chet up to ninety eight point two.

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Speaker 2: Was ninety eight point two on ESPN at what point there?

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Speaker 2: When it was after I think it was like twenty

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Speaker 3: That's as high as a got.

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Speaker 2: Well, that two percent was much much needed for the

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Speaker 2: Detroit Lions, and look, give Jared golf credit. I mean

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Speaker 2: this was, you know, not his best game. Admittedly after

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Speaker 2: the game. Three interceptions, you know, I thought two of

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean he took responsibility for them all after the game.

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Speaker 2: I think maybe one of them was a really bad

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Speaker 2: one where he just didn't see Edwards's short right to him.

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Speaker 2: But not his best game. But then what does he do?

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Speaker 2: You know, he comes back in, drives the ball seventy

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Speaker 2: five yards and then seventy three yards in the final

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Speaker 2: it doesn't really get much better than that.

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Speaker 4: No, And it's exactly you know, he came up big

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Speaker 4: when when the team needed it. Not his best effort,

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Speaker 4: I don't outside of Alex Hanzeloni. Honestly, I don't know

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Speaker 4: if it was anybody's best effort on the Lions today.

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Speaker 3: But that's what a good.

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Speaker 4: Team has to do, especially a divisional game, a team

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Speaker 4: that that you can't you know, it's a tough home

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Speaker 3: Crowd got crowd stayed. A lot of people stayed there

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Speaker 4: But crowd was not behind you, certainly in the third quarter,

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Speaker 4: and and the third quarter has been a recurring theme

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Speaker 2: But there's still the only team in the NFL that

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Speaker 2: has not scored the second It's so weird. A number

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Speaker 1: What's going on.

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Speaker 4: It's so weird. But you know whatever, you punted the

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Speaker 4: third quarter today and you still won the game. And

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Speaker 4: that's that's what it comes down to it at the

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Speaker 2: The day, you find a way to win. And that's

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Speaker 2: why I thought this quote by Jared was terrific after

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's a lot easier to play back and

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Speaker 5: win than it is to play back and lose. And

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Speaker 5: kind of what we did today. We played not our

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Speaker 5: sign of a good team. We're resilient group, we're tough,

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Speaker 5: we we have a lot of courage, and we don't

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Speaker 2: You know, And I think the defense deserves a lot

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Speaker 1: Now you look at the stat box.

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Speaker 2: You look at Justin Fields his first game back, one

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Speaker 2: Good for them coming off the game that they had

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Speaker 1: Look that the third and one.

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Speaker 2: Or the first play of the fourth quarter, the tush

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought it was a well played game by

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Speaker 2: I think since twenty twenty I saw to first NFL

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Speaker 2: To me, for Jered Golf to have the trust coming

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Speaker 6: Well, I think a little bit like what we talked

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Speaker 6: He's uh, he's been accepted and and the way he

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Speaker 1: He's part of the herd.

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Speaker 2: I think Dan missed a marketing opportunity there saying that

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Speaker 2: Shot, he does, and he's just he's just been stead

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Speaker 2: He's been where he needs to be.

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Speaker 1: Jared said, he's practiced really really well the last two weeks.

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Speaker 2: And he's he trusts him and obviously I think that

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Speaker 4: Obviously, this one was a lot bigger of consequence than

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Speaker 3: But also those are two huge.

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Speaker 2: I think that's just going to continue to open up

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Speaker 4: Yeah. And I mean you saw what DJ Moore was

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Speaker 3: That was big and it was great.

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Speaker 1: You spend your.

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Speaker 2: First four years in Chicago, You're a big part of

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you could hear him halfway up the stands. Oh,

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Speaker 3: I got it. Got a great shout out it all right?

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: Stay tuned for Detroit Lions dot Com for pg's terrific

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Speaker 2: shot of the Montgomery celebration of his one year touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Eight and two is the only thing that should matter.

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Speaker 2: Day, first time since nineteen sixty two. Yeah, for sixty

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Speaker 1: Harrie is the only one around here. But look, it's

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Speaker 2: Dan Campbell joked after the game, but look, all their

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Speaker 1: Keep winning football games.

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Speaker 4: Everything is still in front of you, everything is still

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Speaker 2: We'll try to get it to you as quickly as

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